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...The then-owner of bookshop chain Waterstones wanted to sell the business after nearly a decade of ownership. Elliott signed a deal in April 2018 to buy it for about £160mn....
...Cash flowed the other way under its prior owner, Macquarie....
...Enter Paul Draper, fresh from some experimental winemaking in Chile, where he’d done a stint in the Peace Corps....
...Nearly six years after Liberty Media acquired F1 in an $8bn deal, the sport is finally building momentum in its new owner’s home market....
...The PlayStation owner’s acquisition of the company behind the Halo franchise comes less than two weeks after Xbox maker Microsoft agreed to buy video game developer Activision Blizzard for $75bn, its largest...
...He's on documents alongside, we think, the owner of the Ryugyong Corp that's been allegedly involved in smuggling narcotics. So Sun Tit Fan is a key part of this story....
...News round-up Lloyd’s of London issues largest fine in its history after ‘boys’ night out’ bullying (FT) Chicago Cubs owners and Ken Griffin join forces in bid to buy Chelsea (The Guardian) NortonLifeLock...
...Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant and Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith are backing the merger of SeatGeek, an online search engine for event tickets, with RedBall Acquisition Corp, the blank cheque company co-chaired...
...Spend some time admiring some of the Georgian townhouses (clockwise): No 20 (Robert Adam, 1771-4, extended by four bays to the left in 1936-7); No 15, Lichfield House (James “Athenian” Stuart, 1764-6); No...
...“The numbers being put up now are bigger than anything we’ve seen before both in value terms and copies,” said Pelham Smithers, owner of Pelham Smithers Associates....
...Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is getting on the blank-cheque vehicle trend as co-chair of Mission Advancement Corp, a special purpose acquisition company looking to raise...
...This suggests a divide between the priorities of the industry’s rank-and-file and the owners, founders and boards that have lobbied extensively against calls to restrict their power, pay more taxes or be...
...Royal Philips, Snapchat’s owner Snap, Swedish group Ericsson, Royal Caribbean Cruises, French tyremaker Michelin, media group Vivendi and consumer giant Procter & Gamble....
...Long before coronavirus, however, many retailers were battling to keep creditors at bay....
...Baker McKenzie has hired Lisa Fontenot and Derek Liu as partners, expanding its transactional capabilities in the San Francisco Bay Area....
...Mr Spiegel promised users, and investors, an overhaul of its Android app — which had been neglected as Snap prioritised iPhone owners — in 2017....
...Francesca Pesaresi, owner of the María del Mar hotel, which has nine luxury suites, said the situation was “pretty disastrous”....
...airport sets out detailed plans for third runway (FT) KPMG to pay $50m penalty over altered audits (FT) MoneyGram shares more than double on Ripple deal (FT) News Corp exploring potential sale of News...
...It does that spectacularly well, reminding console owners of how well a highly-developed battlefield scene can look on a big home television....
...The owners, Margaret and Roger Hutchings, were targeting bookbuyers who “like to touch, feel and smell books”....
...products of consumption and the feedstock for surveillance capitalism, and a theoretical Data as Labour (DaL) model, which would treat data as user-generated possessions that should primarily benefit their owners...
...CK Hutchison, owner of the Three network, has acquired a stake in Silicon Valley start-up Matrixx Software that develops systems designed to help telecoms companies sell digital goods and services....
...Johan Molin, long serving chief executive of Assa Abloy, the world’s largest lockmaker, is stepping down to be replaced by Nico Delvaux, currently head of Metso Corp, the Finnish industrial machinery company...
...Across the bay from Silicon Valley, in San Ramon, Baker Hughes has a digital technology centre in a building shared with the software operations of its parent GE....
...Lord & Taylor owner Hudson’s Bay Co. has agreed to sell the venerable retailer’s historic department store building on New York’s Fifth Avenue to shared office provider WeWork for $850m....
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